Curriculum Vitae - New York State Psychiatric Institute

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Curriculum Vitae
Name: Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D.
Birthdate: June 8, 1946
Birthplace: Washington, D.C.
Citizenship: U.S.A.
Academic Training
1964-1966: Smith College
1968: B.A., Barnard College, Cum Laude
1973: Ph.D., Columbia University: joint doctoral program in clinical and developmental
psychology, Teachers College.
Doctoral Dissertation: Ontogeny of positive affect in the third and fourth months of life of
one infant (Columbia University,1973). Dissertation Abstracts International, 35 (2),
1014B. Sponsor: Daniel Stern, M.D.
1973-1975: NIMH Fellowship: Postdoctoral Program for Research Training in the Biological
Sci.Relevant to Mental Health, NYSPI, Columbia University; Mentor Daniel Stern, M.D.
1986: Certificate of Specialization in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, N.Y.U. Postdoctoral
Program
Professional Organizations
Society for Research in Child Development
American Psychological Association
Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues
Rapaport-Klein Study Group, Austen Riggs Center
Academic Appointments
1977-l993: Assoc. Prof. Clinical Psych., Ferkauf Grad. School of Psychology, Yeshiva Univ.
1980-1989: Lecturer in Psychiatry, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University.
1980-1985: Visiting Assist. Prof. Psych. N.Y. Hosp. Cornell Med. Center, w/ Dr. Daniel Stern.
1987-ongoing: Core Faculty, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity
1989-ongoing: Faculty, Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, N.Y.U.
1990-1994: Visiting Assoc. Prof. Psychology (in Psychiatry), College of P&S, Columbia Univ.
1994-ongoing: Faculty, The Psychoanalytic Center, Columbia University
1995-2003: Assoc.Clin. Prof. of Med. Psychology (Psychiatry), College of P&S, Columbia Univ.
2003-ongoing: Clin. Prof. of Med. Psychology (Psychiatry) College of P&S, Columbia Univ.
Honors
1973: Election to Kappa Chapter of Sigma XI, Columbia University (Honorary Scientific
Research Society of North America)
1999: Distinguished Scientific Award, American Psychological Assoc., Division of
Psychoanalysis, April.
2002: The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture, London, March.
2002: The Lily Gondor Memorial Award, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health
2005: The Solnit Award for contribution to the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.

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2006: NIP Book Recognition Award for:
(1) Beebe, B., & Lachmann, F. (2002). Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-
Constructing Interactions. Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press., and
(2) Beebe, B., Knoblauch, S., Rustin, J., & Sorter, D. (2005). Forms of Intersubjectivity in
Infant Research and Adult Treatment. New York: Other Press.
2008: The Morton Schillimger Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychoanalysis, American
Psychological Assoc., Division of Psychoanalysis, Section V. April 12. Shared with Frank
Lachmann, PhD.
Current Fellowship and Grant Support
Basic Research
2006-2007: Anonymous Donor, $30,000, Ph.D./Infant Research Fund, $30,940
2007: Individual Donations, Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D./Infant Research Fund, $14,200
2007-2009: Fund for Psychoanalytic Research, Mother-Infant to Stranger-Infant: Depression and
Attachment, $40,000
2008: Koehler Foundation, Munich, Germany: P.I.: "Mother-infant self- and interactive
regulation and maternal distress. $20,000.
2008: The International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Research
Committee, $10,000, Beatrice Beebe PhD., Infant Research Fund.
9-11 Mothers and Young Children Project
2007-2008: Kenworthy-Swift Foundation, $25,000
2007-2009: American Psychological Foundation-Visionary Grant, $10,000
2007-2008: Scott Hazelcorn Children’s Foundation, $15,000
2007: The American Psychoanalytic Fund, $5,000
2008-2011: Scott Hazelcorn Children’s Foundation, $75,000
Past Fellowship and grant support: Basic Research
1968-1969: New York State Regents Fellowship
1969-1971: NIMH Training Grant In Developmental Psychology
1972-1973: NIMH Predoctoral Research Fellowship
1973-1975: NIMH Fellowship, Postdoctoral Program for Res. Training in the Biolog. Sci.
Relevant to Mental Health, NYSPI, Columbia Univ.,Daniel Stern, M.D 1986-1989:
NIMH Grant 41675, Interpersonal timing and infant social development, Co-
Investigator w/ Jaffe, Feldstein, Crown & Jasnow: $847,087.
1991-1992: Institute for Brain Function Research grant, "Four-year follow-up of normal infancy
development project", P.I.; w/ Jaffe: $2,500.
1991-1993: Fund for Psychoanalytic Research, "Do early vocal dialogues of infants and
depressed mothers predict infant attachment?" P.I.; w/ Jaffe: $24,000.
1994-1995: Koehler Foundation, Munich, Germany, P.I.: Self and Mutual Regulation in
Depressed and Control Mothers and their Infants", $19,800.
1995-1996: Edward Aldwell Fund, P.I.: "Mother-infant interaction in depressed and control
mothers", $6,000.
1996-1997: Edward Aldwell Fund, P.I.: "Mother-infant interaction in depressed and control
mothers", $6,000.
1996-1997: LA Infant Research and Psychoanalysis Fund, P.I.: $3,650.

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1997-1998: Edward Aldwell Fund, P.I.: "Mother-infant interaction in depressed and control
mothers", $4,000.
1998-1999: Edward Aldwell Fund, P.I.: "Mother-infant interaction in depressed and control
mothers", $2,000.
1999-2000: Edward Aldwell Fund, P.I.: "Mother-infant interaction in depressed and control
mothers", $2,000.
1999-2000: Koehler-Stiftung Foundation, Munich, Germany: P.I.: "Mother-infant interaction,
maternal depression and the prediction of infant attachment, $15,000.
1999-2004: National Institute Mental Health Grant, P.I., with Joseph Jaffe and Patricia Cohen,
“Mother-infant regulation: Depression and Attachment. $203,965.
2005: Koehler Foundation, Munich, Germany: P.I.: "Mother-infant self- and interactive
regulation and maternal distress. $20,000.
2006: Gruenthal Fund for Infant Research and Psychoanalysis: $6,500.
2006: Individual Donations, Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D./Infant Research Fund, $30,940
Past grant support: 9-11 Mothers and Young Children Project
2002-2003: Margaret Mahler Foundation in support of “Columbia University / NYSPI Mothers
and Children of 9-11", P.I.: $20,000.
2002-2003: NYC Private Foundation in support of “Columbia University/NYSPI Mothers and
Children of 9-11", P.I.: $10,000.
2002-2003: Support groups and parent-child video bonding consultations for mothers pregnant
and widowed on 9-11. The Liberty Fund (FEMA): $247,336. P.I.
2003-2004: Robin Hood Foundation: Support groups and parent-child video bonding
consultations for mothers pregnant and widowed on 9-11: $165,000.
2004-2005: Robin Hood Foundation: Support groups and parent-child video bonding
consultations for mothers pregnant and widowed on 9-11: $245,000.
2005: Alliance of Neighbors, Highlands, NJ: monies requested by 9-11 mothers to fund our
therapists in South Jersey: $17, 690.
2006: Kenworthy-Swift Foundation: Support groups and parent-child video bonding
consultations for mothers pregnant and widowed on 9-11: $20,000.
Teaching Experience
1977-1993 Tenured Associate Professor, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva
University. Courses: Infant research; Childhood psychopathology; Theories of
development; Adult treatment. Chair of over 50 Ph.D. and Psy.D. dissertations.
1987-ongoing: Teaching Infant Research and Psychoanalysis at the Institute for the
Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity. Teaching and supervision of treatment
cases of psychoanalytic candidates.
1989-ongoing: Teaching Infant Research and Psychoanalysis at N.Y.U. Postdoctoral Program in
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1993-ongoing: Sponsorship of Ph.D. and Psy.D. dissertations of over a dozen students in
clinical psychology drawn from departments at St. Johns, Adelphi, N.Y.U.
Clinical and N.Y.U. School Psychology. These students work on research on
mother-infant interaction currently being conducted at NYSPI. My
responsibilities include a three-hour weekly seminar; individual supervision of
the research of each student; participation in the thesis examination committee.
1994-1996: N.Y.S. Psychiatric Institute Teaching Faculty, Residency Training.
1994-ongoing: Faculty, Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center.
1998-ongoing: Faculty, Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center, Parent Infant Project.
Clinical Experience
1975-ongoing: Private practice: Individual adult psychotherapy.
1986-ongoing: Private practice: Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis; mother-infant early
intervention.
2002-ongoing: Director, 9-11 Mothers and Young Infants Project: Primary prevention program
for mothers pregnant and widowed on 9-11, and their young children.
Bibliography
Beebe, B. (1973). Ontogeny of positive affect in the third and fourth months of life of one infant.
(Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 1973). Dissertation Abstracts International, 35 (2),
1014B.
Original peer-reviewed articles:
1. Stern, D., Jaffe, J., Beebe, B., & Bennett, S. (1975). Vocalizing in unison and in alternation.
Two modes of communication within the mother-infant dyad. Annals of the New York Academy
of Sciences, 263, 89-100. Reprinted in L. Bloom (Ed.), Readings in Language Development.
N.Y.: Wiley, 1978, p.115-127.
* 2. Beebe, B., & Gerstman, L. (1980). The "packaging" of maternal stimulation in relation to
infant facial-visual engagement. A case study at four months. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 26,(4),
321-339.
* 3. Beebe, B., & Sloate, P. (1982). Assessment and treatment of difficulties in mother-infant
attunement in the first three years of life: A case history. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 1(4), 601-623.
4. Lachmann, F., & Beebe, B. (1983). Consolidation of the self: A case study. Dynamic
Psychotherapy, 1 (1), 55-75.
* 5. Beebe, B., & Gerstman, L. (1984). A method of defining "packages" of maternal stimulation
and their functional significance for the infant. International Journal of Behavioral Development,
7, 423-440.
6. Crown, C. Feldstein, S., Jasnow, M., Beebe, B., & Jaffe, J. (1985). A strategy for investigating

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autism as prelinguistic disorder of social development. Australian Journal of Human
Communication Disorders, 13(2), 61-67.
* 7. Beebe, B. & Lachmann, F. (l988). The contribution of mother-infant mutual influence to the
origins of self and object representations. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 5 (4), 304-337.
* 8. Beebe, B., Alson, D., & Jaffe, J. (l988). Vocal Congruence in mother-infant play. Journal of
Psycholinguistic Research, 17 (3), 245-259.
9. Jasnow, M., Crown, C., Feldstein, S., Taylor, L., Beebe, B., & Jaffe, J. (l988). Coordinated
interpersonal timing of Downs and non-delayed infants with their mothers: Evidence for a
buffered mechanism of social interaction. Biological Bulletin, 175 (3), 355-360.
10. Lachmann, F., & Beebe, B. (l989). Oneness fantasies revisited. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 6
(2), 137-149.
11. Crown, C.L., Feldstein, S., Jasnow, M.D., Beebe, B. & Jaffe, J. (1991). Gaze behavior of
Down's syndrome and non-delayed infants in interactions with their mothers. Acta
Paedopsychiatrica, 55: 49-53.
12. Feldstein, S., Jaffe, J., Beebe, B., Crown, C.L., Jasnow, M., Fox, H.,& Gordon, S. (1993).
Coordinated timing in adult-infant vocal interactions: A cross-site replication. Infant Behavior &
Development, 16: 455-470.
* 13. Beebe, B., & Lachmann, F. (l994). Representation and internalization in infancy: Three
principles of salience. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 11 (2), 127-165.
14. Kiersky, S., & Beebe, B. (1994). The reconstruction of early nonverbal relatedness in the
treatment of difficult patients: A special form of empathy. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 4, (3), 389-
408.
* 15. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J. & Lachmann, F. (1994). A Dyadic systems model of mother-infant
mutual regulation: Implications for the origins of representations and therapeutic action.
Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Vol. XIV, No. 1, 27-33.
16. Lachmann, F., & Beebe, B. (1995). Self psychology today. Psychoanalytic Dialogues.
17. Lachmann, F., & Beebe, B. (1996). Three principles of salience in the organization of the
patient-analyst interaction. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 13, (1), 1-22.
18. Lachmann, F., & Beebe, B. (1996). The contribution of self- and mutual regulation to
therapeutic action: A case illustration. In Arnold Goldberg, (Ed.), Progress in Self Psychology,
12: 123-140.
19. Crown, C.L., Flaspohler, D.C., Feldstein, S., Jaffe, J., Beebe, B., & Jasnow, M. (1996).
Mathematical models for coordinated interpersonal timing in mother-infant interactions in the
first year of life. Journal Psycholinguistic Research, 25: 617-628.

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* 20. Beebe, B., Lachmann, F .L., & Jaffe, J. (1997). Mother-infant interaction structures and
presymbolic self and object representations. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 7 (2): 133-182.
Translated into Italian, Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 1999, Anno X, No. 1, 9-64.
21. Lachmann, F. L., & Beebe, B. (1997). Trauma, interpretation, and self-state transformations.
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 20, (2), 269-291.
22. Lachmann, F. L., & Beebe, B. (1997). Self and mutual regulation in sadomasochistic
relationships. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, 14, (1), 91-105.
* 23. Beebe, B. (1998). A procedural theory of therapeutic action: Commentary on the
symposium, "Interventions that effect change in psychotherapy" by L. Sander, K. Lyons-Ruth, E.
Tronick, D. Stern, A. Harrison, N. Bruschweiler Stern, J. Nahum, & A. Morgan. Infant Mental
Health Journal,19 (3):333-340.
* 24. Beebe, B., & Lachmann, F. (1998). Co-constructing inner and relational processes: Self
and mutual regulation in infant research and adult treatment. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 15
(4):1-37. Translated into Italian in Ricerca Psicoanalitica (2001) 2.
*25. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Lachmann, F., Feldstein, S., Crown, C., & Jasnow, J. (2000). Systems
models in development and psychoanalysis: The case of vocal rhythm coordination and
attachment. Infant Mental Health Journal, 21, (1-2), 99-122.
*26. Beebe, B. (2000). Co-constructing mother-infant distress: The microsynchrony of maternal
impingement and infant avoidance in the face-to-face encounter. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 20 (3),
421-440.
27. Crown, C., Feldstein, S., Jasnow, M., Beebe, B., & Jaffe, J. (2002). The cross-modal
coordination of interpersonal timing: Six-week-old infants’ gaze with adults’ vocal behavior.
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 31 (1), 1-23.
28. Koulomzin, M., Beebe, B., Anderson, S., Jaffe, J., Feldstein, S., & Crown, C. (2002). Infant
gaze, head, face and self-touch at 4 months differentiate secure vs. avoidant attachment at 1 year:
A microanalytic approach. Attachment and Human Development, 4 (1), 3-24.
29. Cohen, P. M., & Beebe, B. (2003). Video feedback with a depressed mother and her infant:
A collaborative individual psychoanalytic and mother-infant treatment. Journal of Infant Child,
and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 2 (3), 1-55.
*30. Beebe, B. (2003). Brief mother-infant treatment: Psychoanalytically informed video
feedback. Infant Mental Health Journal, 24 (1), 24-52.
*31. Beebe, B., & Lachmann, F. (2003). Organizing principles of interaction from infant
research and the lifespan prediction of attachment: Application to adult treatment. Journal of
Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 2 (4), 59-88.

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*32. Beebe, B. & Lachmann, F. (2003). The relational turn in psychoanalysis: A dyadic systems
view from infant research. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 39 (3), 379-409.
*33. Beebe, B., Knoblauch, S., Rustin, J., & Sorter, D. (2003). Symposium on intersubjectivity
in infant research and its implications for adult treatment. I. Introduction: A systems view.
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 13 (6), 743-775.
*34. Beebe, B., Sorter, D., Rustin, J., & Knoblauch, S. (2003). Symposium on intersubjectivity
in infant research and its implications for adult treatment. II. A comparison of Meltzoff,
Trevarthen and Stern. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 13 (6), 777-804.
*35. Beebe, B., Rustin, J., Sorter, D., & Knoblauch, S., (2003). Symposium on intersubjectivity
in infant research and its implications for adult treatment. III. An expanded view of forms of
intersubjectivity in infancy and its application to psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Dialogues,13
(6), 805-841.
*36. Beebe, B. ( 2004). Symposium on intersubjectivity in infant research and its implications
for adult treatment. IV. Faces-in-relation: A case study. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14 (1), 1-51.
37. Jaffe, J., Ross, D., Anderson, S., Beebe, B. & Squires-Wheeler, E. (2003), Incidence of
nondextrality in the NAS/NRC Twin Registry. Perceptual Motor Skills, 96, 963-964.
38. Badalamenti, A., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Marquette, L,. Helbraun, E., Andrews, H., & Ellman, L.
(2004). Poisson regulation in mother-infant gaze systems. Mathematical and Computer
Modeling, 39, 305-324.
*39. Beebe, B. (2004). Co-constructing mother-infant distress in face-to-face interactions:
Contributions of microanalysis. Zero To Three, May: 40-48.
*40. Beebe, B. (2005). Mother-infant research informs mother-infant treatment. Psychoanalytic
Study of the Child, 60, 7-46.
*41. Beebe, B. (2006). Co-constructing mother-infant distress in face-to-face interactions:
Contributions of microanalysis. Infant Observation, August: 9 (2): 151-164.
42. Ritter, M., Bucci, W., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J. & Maskit, B. (2007). Do mothers of secure infants
speak differently than mothers of avoidant infants in natural conversations? An interpersonal
exploration of language differences. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association,
55:269-275.
*43. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Chen, H., Buck, K., Cohen, P., Feldstein, S. & Andrews, H. (2008, in
press). Six-week postpartum depressive symptoms predict 4-month mother-infant self- and
interactive regulation. Infant Mental Health Journal. Special issue on maternal depression,
Roseanne Clark, Guest Editor.
*44. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Buck, K., Chen, H., Cohen, P., Blatt, S., Kaminer, T., Feldstein, S. &

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Andrews, H. (2007). Six-week postpartum maternal self-criticism and dependency predict 4-
month mother-infant self- and interactive contingencies. Developmental Psychology, 43 (6),
1360-1376.
*45. Beebe, B., Badalamenti, A. Jaffe, J., Marquette, L., Helbraun, E., Andrews, H. & Ellman, L.
(2008). Distressed mothers and their infants use less efficient timing mechanisms in creating
visual expectancies. J. Psycholinguistic Research.
46. Kaminer, T., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Kelly, K. & Marquette, L. (2007). Mothers’ dependent and
self-critical depressive experience is related to speech content with infants. J. Early Childhood
Infant Psychology, 163-184.
47. Stepakoff, S., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J. (2008, in press). Mother-infant four-month tactile
communication: Infant gender, maternal ethnicity and maternal depression. Infant Mental Health
Journal.
48. Beebe, B., Feldstein, S., Hane, A.A., Jaffe, J., Markese, S., Crown, C., & Moore., M.S.
(2008, under review). Rhythms of dialogue from 4-12 months, infant attachment and cognition:
A case study of homotypic and heterotypic continuities.
49. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Buck, K., Chen, H., Cohen, P., Feldstein, S., & Andrews, H. (2008,
under review). Maternal anxiety and 4-month mother-infant self- and interactive contingency.
Report to NIMH RO1 MH 56130, November 1, 2003.
Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Chen, H., Cohen, P., Buck, K, Feldstein, S. et al. (2003). Mother-Infant Selfand
Interactive Regulation and Distress at 4 Months: Maternal States of Mind, Mother and
Infant Behavioral Distress Patterns, and 12 Month Infant Attachment.
Books
1. Jaffe, J., Beebe, B., Feldstein, S., Crown, C.L., & Jasnow, M. (2001). Rhythms of Dialogue in
Infancy. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Series 264, Vol 66 (2).
(Blackwell Publishing).
*2. Beebe, B., & Lachmann, F. (2002). Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing
Interactions. Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press.
*3. Beebe, B., Knoblauch, S., Rustin, J., & Sorter, D. (2005). Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant
Research and Adult Treatment. New York: Other Press.
*4. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Markese, S., Buck, K., Chen, H., Cohen, P., Bahrick, L. Feldstein, S.,
Andrews, H., & Moore, M.S. (2008, accepted pending revisions). Four-month mother-infant
interaction and 12-month attachment: Attentional, spatial, tactile and affective dysregulations.
Attachment and Human Development, Monograph Series.
Chapters
* 1. Beebe, B., & Stern. D. (1977). Engagement-disengagement and early object experiences. In

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N. Freedman & S. Grand (Eds.), Communicative structures and psychic structures. New York:
Plenum Press: 35-55.
2. Stern, D., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., & Bennett, S. (1977). The infant's stimulus world during social
interaction. In H.R. Schaffer (Ed.), Studies in mother-infant interaction. N.Y.: Academic Press:
177-202.
* 3. Beebe, B., Stern, D., & Jaffe, J. (1979). The kinesic rhythm of mother-infant interactions. In
A.W. Siegman & S. Feldstein (Eds.), Of speech and time: Temporal patterns in interpersonal
contexts. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.: 23-24.
* 4. Beebe, B. (1982). Micro-timing in mother-infant communication. In M.R. Key (Ed.).,
Nonverbal communication today. Series Edited by Joshua Fishman, Contributions to the
sociology of language. Volume 33. New York: Mouton.
* 5. Beebe, B., Gerstman, L., Carson, B., Dolins, M., Zigman, A., Rosensweig, H., Faughey, K.
& Korman, M. (1982). Rhythmic Communication in the mother-infant dyad. Martha Davis (Ed.),
Interaction rhythms. Human Sciences Press.
* 6. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Feldstein, S., Mays, K., & Alson, D. (1985). Interpersonal timing: The
application of an adult dialogue model to mother-infant vocal and kinesic interactions. In Tiffany
Field (Ed.), Infant Social Perception. N.Y.: Ablex, 217-248.
* 7. Beebe, B. (1986). Mother-infant mutual influence and precursors of early self and object
representations. Joseph Masling (Ed.), Empirical studies of psychoanalytic theories, Vol. II.
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,27-48.
8. Lachmann, F., Beebe, B., & Stolorow, R. (1987). Increments of separation. in The psychology
of separation through the life-span. J. & S. Bloom-Feshbach (Eds.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,
396-415.
* 9. Beebe, B., & Lachmann, F. (l988). Mother-infant mutual influence and precursors of
psychic structure. In A. Goldberg (Ed.), Progress in self psych., Vol 3. Hillsdale, N.J.: L.
Erlbaum, 3-26.
10. Lachmann, F., & Beebe, B. (1992). Representational and self-object transferences: A
developmental perspective. In A. Goldberg (Ed.) Progress in Self Psychology, 7.
11. Lachmann, F., & Beebe, B. (l992). Reformulations of early development and transference:
Implications for psychic structure. In D. Wolitzky, M. Eagle & J. Barron (Eds.) Psychoanalysis
and Psychology, L. Erlbaum, 133-153.
12. Lachmann, F., & Beebe, B. (l993). Interpretation in a developmental perspective. In
A. Goldberg (Ed.), Progress in Self Psychology, Vol.9. Hillsdale, N.J., 45-52.
* 13. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., & Lachmann, F. (l993). A dyadic systems view of communication. In
N. Skolnick & S. Warshaw (Eds.), Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis, 61-81. Hillsdale,

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N.J.: Analytic Press.
14. Lachmann, F. L., & Beebe, B. (1998). A systems approach to optimal responsiveness. In H.
Bacal (Ed.), Optimal Responsiveness: How therapists heal their patients. Northvale, N.J.:
Aronson.
15. Beebe, B. & Jaffe, J. (2007). Dyadic microanalysis of mother-infant communication informs
clinical practice. In Fogel, A., King, B. J., & Shanker, S. (Eds.) Human development in the 21 st
century: Visionary policy ideas from systems scientists. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press.
16. Anderson, S., Koulomzin, M, Beebe, B. & Jaffe, J. (2002). Visual attention and selfgrooming
behaviors among four-month-old infants: Indirect evidence pointing to a
developmental role for mirror neurons. M. Stamenov and V. Gallese (Eds.), Mirror neurons and
the evolution of brain and language, 295-304.
17. Beebe, B. (2007). Preface: A relational systems approach to infant research and adult
treatment. In Carli, L. & Rodini, C. (Eds.), Le forme di intersoggettività. L’implicito e
l’esplicito nelle relazioni interpersonali. (Intersubjectivity forms: The implicit and the explicit
in the interpersonal relationships). Milan: R. Cortina.
Reviews
* 1. Beebe, B. (1982). Development and psychopathology. Review of Greenspan & Pollock
(Eds.), The Course of Life, Vol. I: Infancy and Early Childhood. Contemporary Psychology,
1982, 27(9), 701-702.
Published Abstracts of peer-reviewed papers presented at scientific meetings
1981
*1. Beebe, B., & Gerstman, L. Toward a method of defining "packages" of maternal stimulation
and their functional significance to the infant. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Society for
Research in Child Development, Boston, April, l981.
1982
*2. Beebe, B. Infant-stranger interactive organization at four months: A case study. International
Conference on Infant Studies. Austin, Texas. March, l982.
3. Greenbaum R., & Beebe, B. Correlation of Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale
with Carey Infant Temperament Questionnaires. International Conference on Infant Studies.
Austin, Texas. March, l982.
1983
*4. Beebe, B., Kronen, J., & Gerstman, L. Simultaneous directional tracking in mother-infant
play. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Detroit, Michigan,
April, l983.

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1984
5. Zelner, S., Beebe, B., Feldstein, S., & Jaffe, J. Short-range sequential constraint in mothervocal
infant-gaze dialogue during face-to-face play. Paper presented at the International
Conference on Infant Studies, New York, City, April, 1984.
1986
6. Mays, K., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Feldstein, S., & Crown, C. Interpersonal influence: The
application of an adult dialogue model to temporal matching in mother-infant play. Abstracts of
papers presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Los Angeles, April, 10, 1986.
Infant Behavior and Development, l986, 9, 25.
7. Mann, M., Beebe, B., & Feldstein, S. Bi-directional influence in mother-toddler and fathertoddler
play. Abstracts of papers presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Los
Angeles, April 10, 1986. Infant Behavior and Development, l986, 9, 241.
1987
8. Crown, C., Jasnow, M., Taylor, L. Feldstein, S., Jaffe, J., & Beebe, B. Gaze behavior of
Down-Syndrome infants interactions with their mothers. Abstracts of paper presented at the
Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore Maryland, 1987, April.
1988
*9. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Crown, C., Jasnow, M., Feldstein, S., & Gordon, S. (l988). Influence in
mother-infant versus stranger infant vocal dialogue: A cross-site replication. Abstracts of Papers
presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Infant Behavior and Development,
ll, l988, 20.
10. Crown, D., Feldstein, S., Jasnow, M., Beebe, B. Wagman, I., & Jaffe, J. (l988). The temporal
coordination of neonatal gaze with adult vocal behavior. Abstracts of Papers presented at the
International Conference on Infant Studies. Infant Behavior and Development,ll, 62.
*11. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J. Crown, C., Jasnow, M. Feldstein, S., & Gordon, S. Influence in motherinfant
vs. stranger-infant vocal dialogue: A cross-site replication. Abstracts Issue, Infant
Behavior and Development, 11, International Conference on Infant Studies, Washington D.C.,
April, l988.
1989
*12. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Crown, C., Feldstein, S., Jasnow, M., & Gordon, S. (l989). Motherinfant
and stranger-infant vocal dialogue at 12 months: Home/lab replication. Abstracts of
Society for Research in Child Development, April, Kansas City, Missouri.
1990
13. Feldstein, S., Di Gregorio, I., Crown, C.L. & Jasnow, M.D. Infant temperament and
coordinated interpersonal timing. (l990). Abstracts of Papers presented at International
Conference on Infant Studies, Montreal, Quebec, April, 1990.(Beebe & Jaffe to be added at

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publication). Infant Behavior and Development, 13.
14. Jaffe, J., Feldstein, S., Anderson, S. W., Beebe, B., Crown, C. Jasnow, M. (l990). Turn rule
structures in protoconversation. Abstracts of Papers presented at International Conference on
Infant Studies, Montreal, Quebec, April. Infant Behavior and Development, l3, 436.
15. Anderson, S.W. (l990). Turn-exchange patterns between babies & adults: Are they
inconsistent with rules for turntaking in adult conversation? Abstracts of Papers presented at
International Conference on Infant Studies, Montreal, Quebec, April. (Beebe & Jaffe to be added
at publication). Infant Behavior and Development, 13, l990.
16. Rotter, A., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Feldstein, S., Crown, C. C., Jasnow, M. & Glassman, M.
(l990). Curvilinear relationship between maternal work hours and infant Bayley at one year.
Abstracts of Papers presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Montreal, Quebec,
Infant Behavior and Development, 13, 603.
17. Cohn, J., & Beebe, B. (l990). Sampling interval affects time-series regression estimates of
mother-infant influence. Abstracts of Papers presented at International Conference on Infant
Studies, Montreal, Quebec. Infant Behavior and Development,l3, 1990, 317.
18. Jaffe, J., Beebe, B., Anderson, S. W., Feldstein, S., Jasnow, M., & Crown, C.L. (1990).
Conversational and anticonversational turntaking in mother-infant vocal interactions at four
months. Abstract, Brain & Language, 39: 611-612.
1991
19. Jaffe, J., Beebe, B., Anderson, S. W., & Feldstein, S. (1991). Kinesic turntaking precedes
speech onset. Abstract, 2nd TENNET Conference, Montreal, Canada.
*20. Beebe, B. Jaffe, J., Feldstein, S., & Crown, C. (l991). Mother-infant rhythms of dialogue.
Abstract, Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington, May.
1992
21. Jaffe, J., Anderson, S., Beebe, B., Feldstein, S., Crown, C.L., & Jasnow, M. (1992).
Turntaking in protoconversation: the emergence of two states of mind. Abstract, International
Journal of Neuroscience, 63, 236-237.
*22. Beebe, B., & Jaffe, J.(l992). Mother-infant vocal dialogue. Infant Behavior and
Development, l5, ICIS Abstracts Issue, May, p.48.
*23. Beebe, B., & Jaffe, J. (l992). The dyadic regulation of mother-infant coordination: The
contribution of infant responsivity to the prediction of infant attachment. Infant Behavior and
Development, l5. ICIS Abstracts Issue, p. 113.
24. Jaffe, J. Beebe, B., Feldstein, S., & Anderson, S. (l992). Do vocal dialogues of infants and

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depressed mothers predict infant attachment? Infant Behavior and Development, 15, ICIS
Abstracts Issue, p.50.
1993
25. Koulomzin, M., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., & Feldstein, S. (1993). Infant self-comfort, disorganized
scanning, facial distress & bodily approach in face-to-face play at 4 months discriminate "A" vs
"B" attachment at one year. Abstract, Society for Research in Child Development, March 25-28,
New Orleans, LA., 446.
26. Sarro, S., Goldstein R., Zicht, S., Anderson, S., & Beebe, B. (1993). Bidirectional sequential
constraint in mother-toddler regulation of object, person, & object-plus-person states. Abstract,
Society for Research in Child Development, March 25-28, New Orleans, LA., 582.
27. Sarro, S., Goldstein, R., Zicht, S., Anderson, S. W., Beebe, B., & Jaffe, J. (1993). Disruption
of conversational responsivity and attention to maternal vocalizing at two years of age among
toddlers classified as insecurely attached by the Ainsworth test at age one. (Abstract). Sixth
Annual New York State Office of Mental Health Research Conference. Albany, NY. Dec. 7,
28. Jaffe, J., Beebe, B., & Anderson, S. W. (1993). The effect on the infant of postpartum
depression in the mother. (Abstract). Sixth Annual New York State Office of Mental Health
Research Conference. Albany, NY. Dec. 7, 1993.
1994
29. Anderson, S., Beebe, B., Koulomzin, M., & Jaffe, J. (l994). Chiming: A vocal behavior that
discriminates depressed from non-depressed mothers in face-to-face play with their four-month
infants. Abstracts of the Ninth International Conference on Infant Studies, Paris, June 4.
30. Crown, C., Flaspohler, D., Feldstein, S., Jaffe, J., & Beebe, B. (l994). A comparison of
mathematical models of mother-infant interaction in the first year of life. Abstracts of the Ninth
International Conference on Infant Studies, Paris, June 4.
1995
31. Feldstein,S., Crown,C., Beebe,B., & Jaffe,J. Temporal coordination and the prediction of
mother-infant attachment. Abstracts of the Society for Research in Child Development,
Indianapolis, Indiana, March, l995.
1996
32. Crown, C., Flaspohler, D., Chase, B., Jaffe, J., Feldstein, S., Beebe, B., Jasnow, M.
Contingency relates differently to attachment and cognition in male and female infants.
(Abstract) American Psychological Society, San Francisco, June, 1996.
33. Anderson, S., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., & Feldstein, S. (1996). Four-month infants of depressed
mothers show diminished level of activity in response to mother's voice. Abstracts of the
International Conference for Infant Studies, Providence, RI.
34. Anderson, S., Beebe, B., & Jaffe, J. (1996). 4-Month infants of depressed mothers show

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diminished vocal activation in response to mother's voice during face-to-face play. (Abstract)
10th Int Conference on Infant Studies, Providence, April 19th, L18.
1998
35. Marquette, L., Helbraun, E., Beebe, B., & Jaffe, J. (1998). Microanalysis of mother-infant
gaze and infant self-comfort behavior in dyads reporting high, mid-range, and low maternal
depressive symptoms. Abstracts, International Conference Infant Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, April
2-5.
36. Kaufman-Balamuth, L., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Feldstein, S,. & Crown, C. (1998). Four month
mother-infant gaze contingencies predict one year infant attachment. Abstracts, International
Conference Infant Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2-5.
1999
37. Hane, A., Feldstein, F., Crown, C., Beebe, B., Jasnow, M., & Jaffe, J. (1999). The relation of
mother-infant vocal coordination to attachment with twelve month old infants. Abstracts, Society
for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 15-18.
2000
38. Kaminer, T., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Kelly, K., & Marquette, M. (2000). Maternal depression,
maternal speech, and infant gaze at 4 months. International Conference on Infant Studies,
Brighton, England, July.
39. Stepakoff, S., Beebe, B., & Jaffe, J. (2000). Mother-infant tactile communication at four
months: Infant gender, maternal ethnicity, and maternal depression. International Conference on
Infant Studies, Brighton, England, July.
40. Putterman, J., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J. Ruffins, S., & Wolitzky, D. (2000). Maternal depression,
maternal object relations, and mother-infant gaze predict infant attachment. International
Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England, July.
41. Hentel, A., Beebe, B., & Jaffe, J. (2000). Maternal depression at 6 weeks is associated with
infant self-comfort at 4 months. International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England,
July.
42. Marquette, L. (2000). Maternal self-report depression and infant and mother behavioral
profiles. International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England, July.
2002
*43. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Chen, H., Cohen, P. (2002). Mother-infant 4-month self- and interactive
regulation: Maternal States of mind, mother and infant distress patterns, and 12 month infant
attachment. International Conference Infant Studies, Toronto, Canada, April.
2004
44. Kramer-Phelan, D., Phelan, A., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., & Cohen , P. (2004). Infant
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depression and anxiety. Poster, International Conference Infant Studies, Chicago, May 5-8.
45. Flaster, C., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Feldstein, S., & Crown, C. (2004). Generalization of vocal
rhythms among 4-month mother-infant, stranger-infant and mother-stranger dyads differentiates
infant attachment. Poster, International Conference Infant Studies, Chicago, May 5-8.
46. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J. Chen, H., Cohen, P., Buck, K., Lachmann, F., Feldstein, S. et al. (2004).
Maternal depression at 6 weeks postpartum and mother-infant 4-month self- and interactive
regulation. International Conference Infant Studies, Chicago, May 5-8.
47. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J. Chen, H., Cohen, P., Buck, K., Lachmann, F., Feldstein, S. et al. (2004).
Maternal depression vs anxiety and mother-infant 4-month self- and interactive regulation.
International Conference Infant Studies, Chicago, May 5-8.
48. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J. Chen, H., Cohen, P., Buck, K., Feldstein, S. et al. (2004). Four-month
self- and interactive regulation of mother touch and infant self touch: Maternal depression and
anxiety, and infant disorganized attachment. International Conference Infant Studies, Chicago,
May 5-8.
2007
49. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Markese, S., Buck, K., Chen, H., Cohen, P., Bahrick, L., Feldstein, S. et
al. (2007). Microanalysis of Mother-Infant Interaction at 4 Months Predicts 12-Month
Attachment. SRCD, Boston, March.
2008
50. Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Buck, K., Chen, H., Cohen, P., Blatt, S., Kaminer, T., Feldstein, S. &
Andrews, A. (2008). Six-Week Postpartum Maternal Self-Criticism and Dependency and 4-
Month Mother-Infant Self- and Interactive Contingencies. XVI Biennial International
Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, March.
51. Markese, S., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Feldstein, S. (2008). Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy and
Attachment Narratives in Childhood. XVI Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies,
Vancouver, March.
Selected Recent Presentations and Lectures
2003 Oscar Sternbach Memorial Lecture: Infant Research and Implications for Adult Treatment
and Distress Regulation, NPAP, October 10.
2004 New York University Psychoanalytic Institute, 24 th Annual Maurice R. Friend Lecture:
Infant Research and Treatment, New York City, New York, September 30.
2004 New York State Psychiatric Institute, Grand Rounds: Mother-Infant Communication
Disturbances - Research and Treatment, New York City, New York, October 15.
2004 Annual Meeting of the Psychology of the Self: Mother-Infant Communication

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Disturbances, San Diego, CA, November 4.
2005 American Psychoanalytic Association Special Event: Infant Research and Adult Treatment
in, “Changing Our Minds: Modifying Representation of Self and Other in Psychotherapy”, Susan
Vaughan, Panel Chair, New York City, January 22.
2005 The Selma Kramer Lecture in Child Psychoanalysis, The Psychoanalytic Center of
Philadelphia: Infant Research and Adult Treatment, March 4.
2005 The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia: Mother-Infant Communication Disturbances -
The Effects of Maternal Depression on Self- and Interactive Regulation, March 4.
2005 The Margaret S. Mahler Child Psychotherapy Lecture, The Psychoanalytic Center of
Philadelphia: Infant Research and Early Intervention, March 5.
2005 American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis, Master Class: Infant
Research and Adult Treatment, April 13.
2005 American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis: Support Groups and
Video Bonding Consultations for 9-11 Mothers, Infants and Children, with Drs. Phyllis Cohen,
Anni Bergman, Sally Moskowitz and Joseph Jaffe, New York City, April 14.
2005 Parent-Infant Research and Psychotherapy, The Attachment Research Unit, University
College, London: Maternal Depression/Anxiety and Mother-Infant Self- and Interactive
Regulation – Recent Research, London, May 20-21.
2005 Parent-Infant Research and Psychotherapy, The Attachment Research Unit, University
College, London: Video-Assisted Mother-Infant Treatment, May 20-21.
2005 St. Luke’s- Roosevelt Hospital, New York City: Grand Rounds Lecture, December 7.
2006 Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Infant Research and Adult Treatment, Los
Angeles, November 4.
2006 American Psychoanalytic Association, Modern Ego Psychology Study Group (Chairs: Drs.
Eric Marcus and Karen Gilmore): Co-constructing Self- and Interactive Regulation in Mother-
Infant Interaction – A Systems View, with Dr. Frank Lachmann, January 18.
2006 American Psychoanalytic Association, Vulnerable Child Study Group (Chairs: Drs.
Theodore Cohen and M. Hossein Etezady): The Use of Video in Infant and Child Treatment,
with Dr. Alexandra Harrison, January 19.
2006 American Psychoanalytic Association, Seminar on Nonverbal Communication (Chair: Dr.
Ted Jacobs): Facial Communication between Mother and Infant, January 18.

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2006 Sigmund Freud Intitut, Kohler Foundation – Essen, Sigmund Freud Institut – Frankfurt,
and Johan Wolfgang Goethe Universitat: Mother-Infant Communication Disturbances –
Research and Implications for Infant and Adult Treatment, Frankfurt, Germany, May 20-21.
2006 ISIPSE, Department of Dynamic Psychology, Rome University: Infant Research and Early
Intervention, Rome, Italy, May 25.
2007 Austen Riggs Center, Erikson Institute for Education and Research: Mother-Infant
Communication Disturbances and the Origins of Disorganized Attachment, March 2.
2007 Bessel van der Kolk, Chair: 18 th Annual International Trauma Conference: Psychological
Trauma: Neuroscience, Attachment, and Therapeutic Interventions: Transmission of Trauma in
Mother-Infant Communication: The Origins of Disorganized Attachment, Boston, June 22.
2007 Boulder Institute for Psychotherapy and Research: Mother-Infant Communication
Disturbances: The Origins of Disorganized Attachment, July 2.
2007 PsyBC Conference: Affect Regulation-Development, Trauma, and Treatment of the Brain-
Mind-Body. The Four - Month Origins of Disorganized Attachment: Disturbances of
Attentional, Spatial, Touch, and Affect Regulation, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York City,
November 3.
2008 New York Freudian Society & Psychoanalytic Training Institute, NYFS-NY Scientific
Program. Mother-Infant Communication Disturbances: Research and Treatment, Mt. Sinai
Medical Center, February 19.
2008 The David L. Raphling Memorial Lecture 2008. “Co-Constructing Interactions in Infant
Research and Adult Treatment”, The Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, Washington DC,
March 7.
2008: Lecture, New York University Counseling Psychology Forum Series, “Mother Infant
Communication Disturbances” New York, NY, March 25.
2008 The Morton Schillimger Award Lecture for Lifetime Contributions to Psychoanalysis,
American Psychological Assoc., Division of Psychoanalysis, Section V. Shared with
Frank Lachmann, PhD. “Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Videotaping the
Analyst’s Face.” April 12.
2008 Keynote Address, American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, Infant
Research and Psychoanalysis, “Infant Research and Adult Treatment.” Washington DC, May 3.
2008 Daylong Seminar Munich, Germany “The Origins of Disorganized Attachment,” May 31.
2008 Halfday Seminar Munich, Germany “Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and
Adult Treatment,” May 31.